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Dangote refinery to start
selling petrol by 2020
July 9, 2018 - Leave a Comment
The Dangote refinery plans to start selling
petrol, diesel and aviation fuel by early 2020,
the group executive director, Edwin
Devakumar told Bloomberg. He also
disclosed that the company’s fertiliser plant
will start producing urea this year.
The $10 billion refinery, set to be one of the
world’s largest and which can process
650,000 barrels of crude a day, should be
near full capacity by mid-2020, Devakumar
said in the interview,
“People still have difficulty believing we can
do it on time and within those costs,”
Devakumar said Wednesday. “But we believe
we can. It’s something of the size that’s
rarely been done before. It’s huge.”
Dangote’s facility will probably produce about
50 million liters (13.2 million gallons) a day
of gasoline and 15 million liters of diesel,
though output can be changed according to
the demand for each product, Devakumar
said. While Nigeria, a country of almost 200
million people, consumes roughly 35 million
liters of gasoline daily, Dangote can export
surpluses, Devakumar said.
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